Onboarding

How it is used

Includes welcome screens, short tours, tooltips, checklists and permission requests. Teams measure onboarding with completion and activation rates. In HR, onboarding means helping a new employee settle into a company.

Example sentences

1. We cut onboarding from seven screens to three, and completion went up.

2. The onboarding asks for notification permission too early.

Common collocations

• onboarding flow
• user onboarding
• onboarding screens
• skip onboarding

Related terms

• user flowA diagram or sequence that shows the screens, steps and decisions a user goes through to complete one task in a product, such as resetting a password.
• tooltipA small text box that appears when users hover over, focus on or tap an element, giving a short explanation or the name of an icon.
• empty stateWhat a screen shows when there is no content yet, such as an empty inbox, a search with no results or a new account with no projects.
• microcopyThe short pieces of text in an interface, such as button labels, hints, error messages and confirmations, that guide users through a task.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• onboarding · Software Engineering
• onboarding · Mobile App Development
• onboarding · Game Development
• onboarding · Business English
• onboarding · Human Resources
• onboarding · Finance & Banking

More terms: Interaction Design

• interaction design
• feedback
• affordance
• mental model
• cognitive load
• friction
• microinteraction
• hover state
• gesture
• dark pattern
• Fitts's law